Precise Estimation Method for Rice Planted Acreage using Accurate Agricultural Plot Vector Data and Moderate Resolution Satellite Raster Data

In the rice planted acreage estimation, high precise measurement and laborsaving are required by using satellite data. A method referring accurate agricultural plot vector data was used in this paper which improves the estimation accuracy of rice planted acreage compared with conventional methods. In this method, satellite data are not used for totalization, although they are used to discriminate whether the fields are rice planted or not. This paper described the result of the above method using to ASTER-VNIR data.